Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain No city or town in Colorado is allowed to prohibit natural medicine healing centers from opening and offering supervised consumption of mushrooms and other psychedelics to adults—that much was plain in an initiative passed by the state’s voters two years ago.
But local governments have enough tools in their regulatory toolbox to make the process of establishing such facilities nothing short of a bad trip, as recent rule-making in Parker, and discussions to do the same in Castle Rock, have shown.
Using time, place and manner powers, municipalities can curtail hours of operation and limit the locations of healing centers to a point where players in the nascent industry may feel it’s not worth giving it a go.
"It’s way too restrictive and unrealistic," said Beth Jauquet, a psychedelic counselor and registered dietitian who last week pleaded with elected leaders in Castle Rock to dial back plans to rein in an industry that voters approved in a statewide vote in 2022.
Her business, Primalized Health Consultants, which offers acupuncture, nutrition counseling and massage, also provides guided psychedelic journeys that are permitted under the new state law’s provision that allows adults 21 and older to share the substances. But Jauquet told the council that new location and time restrictions as part of formal regulations for the industry could hobble that side of her business.
The fast-growing town of 80,000 is considering drawing 1,000-foot setbacks for the facilities from day care centers, schools and homes, leaving just a sliver of industrial zoning in Castle Rock available for psychedelic healers to ply their craft. The town is also talking about restricting operating hours at healing centers from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday—no evening or weekend services allowed.
Jauquet, whose business has been operating in Castle Rock for 14 years, said many of her patients are military veterans , some of whom suffer from post-traumatic stress syndrome and depression. Psychedelics have been found to be effective in treating symptoms of those conditions. Putting up roadblocks to them getting treatment is unconscionable, she said.
"The veterans are tired of being on all their medications," […]
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